An Artist in the Riviera

Flower stalls, fishing harbours and old streets along the French and Italian coasts fill Walter Tyndale's paintings, reprodu...

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Flower stalls, fishing harbours and old streets along the French and Italian coasts fill Walter Tyndale's paintings, reproduced in these prints from An Artist in the Riviera, his early twentieth-century travel book published by Hutchinson around 1915–16. Menton, Monaco and Nice share the journey with San Remo, Albenga, Noli, Rapallo and the villages around Portofino, and the Ligurian subjects are especially varied, from narrow lanes to the harbours of Camogli and Sestri Levante. Processions, greengrocers and the blessing of houses appear beside church façades and seafront architecture, a painter's record of the coast before mass tourism reshaped its image.

Flower stalls, fishing harbours and old streets along the French and Italian coasts fill Walter Tyndale's paintings, reproduced in these prints from An Artist in the Riviera, his early twentieth-century travel book published by Hutchinson around 1915–16. Menton, Monaco and Nice share the journey with San Remo, Albenga, Noli, Rapallo and the villages around Portofino, and the Ligurian subjects are especially varied, from narrow lanes to the harbours of Camogli and Sestri Levante. Processions, greengrocers and the blessing of houses appear beside church façades and seafront architecture, a painter's record of the coast before mass tourism reshaped its image.

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